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by The Lewis
Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Pistols
Replies: 31
Views: 3919

Re: OT - Pistols

I have fairly fat hands as well, the 1911 fit me best, especially a bobtailed frame. Dan Wesson makes a great pistol, the Commander Bobtail or CBOB, check it out. http://www.cz-usa.com/product_detail.php?id=66 And Jeff Quinn @ Gunblast has a review of one. http://www.gunblast.com/DanWesson-Commander...
by The Lewis
Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS?: As goes the Single Action revolver, so goes Ameri
Replies: 7
Views: 1403

Re: POLITICS?: As goes the Single Action revolver, so goes Ameri

Good post, and thanks for the books Doc...
by The Lewis
Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Need your opinion - Large Loop Lever w/ pics
Replies: 27
Views: 2938

Re: Need your opinion - Large Loop Lever w/ pics

Looks good! As for size, I guess I'd want it just big enough to comfortably fit my hand with the biggest glove I'd be apt to wear and no bigger. You going into production with these?
by The Lewis
Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT? HA! Any of youse who've been to Africa dealt with this?
Replies: 23
Views: 3293

Re: OT? HA! Any of youse who've been to Africa dealt with this?

Yes Sir Mr Elephant Sir, you just go ahead and take whatever you want, I'll be way over here...
by The Lewis
Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Humor: MAINE Jokes Wanted!
Replies: 20
Views: 2507

Re: Humor: MAINE Jokes Wanted!

Portland, as close as you can get to Maine without actually being there!
by The Lewis
Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sarah Palin's security clearance.
Replies: 6
Views: 2196

Sarah Palin's security clearance.

In case there was any doubt left lingering... SARAH PALIN'S SECURITY CLEARANCE Before you dismiss the fact that Sarah Palin is Commander of the Alaska National Guard, consider this: Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of t...
by The Lewis
Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WARNING! Explicit bullet wound. Not for young eyes.
Replies: 32
Views: 5499

Re: WARNING! Explicit bullet wound. Not for young eyes.

Yeah Griff, maybe shrapnel, looks like a cut. My brother got a wound much like that going through a sliding glass door. We won't elaborate the circumstances of that event, the amount of booze, the trail of blood going across the street to the hospital, the explanation to Mom... :roll:
by The Lewis
Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How many states still have decent gun laws?
Replies: 50
Views: 5756

Re: How many states still have decent gun laws?

Vermont is the way it should be. The only gun law is don't commit a crime with one, oh, and stay off of federal property. Cosmoline, Great set up on the bike! I could use one of those scabbards, I have a range within cycling distance and try to do that when I have the time, always like to kill two b...
by The Lewis
Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: Took another horse ride into the Cabinet Mtn wilderness
Replies: 13
Views: 1848

Re: OT: Took another horse ride into the Cabinet Mtn wilderness

I'd love to do that one day, How long were you out? Thanks for the pics!
by The Lewis
Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Total Weirdness...
Replies: 21
Views: 2750

Re: OT - Total Weirdness...

I ate up the whole series, although, the last few were just 'cause I wanted to read the whole series. Great book.

The Nuns killed you if you failed because it 'proved' you were merely an animal and not human. Maybe we should enact a similar test for our political woes, if you are merely a liberal...
by The Lewis
Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - American Gov't Checks & Balances
Replies: 17
Views: 2276

Re: American Gov't Checks & Balances

But then how will the sky come falling down?! :lol: IF Obama gets elected and IF the congress deepens it's liberal majority than there will be two years of potential nastiness but then if they do anything really stupid I have faith that we will vote the rascals out of congress just like we did to Cl...
by The Lewis
Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
Replies: 10
Views: 2794

Re: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight

Expensive lesson to drill out a NECG sight! Ain't going to work as a ghost ring due to the HUGE block of a body that gets in the way. The candidates are the XS and the Williams FP, but apparently, no pictures exist of these elusive sights perched on a Ruger. Pete44ru, I can visualize the XS if it lo...
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
Replies: 10
Views: 2794

Re: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight

Thanks for the tip, I have seen that sight, even shot with one, it is a fine peep sight. I am after a ghost ring sight and the NECG sight is a bit of a block and doesn't offer the thin rim of a ghost ring. I guess I should have said ghost ring in the title, the XS is supposed to be one and may need ...
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Humor-More outhouse humor
Replies: 4
Views: 1285

Humor-More outhouse humor

Here in Vermont back in the 1920 lived a man named Tink Alder, a carpenter by trade, had a long beard and was always seen in a white shirt, black pants with suspenders and his hat. One day Tink got a letter from the Benoit sisters, twins living alone on their homestead, asking if he could come build...
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Humor - Semper Fi!
Replies: 8
Views: 1646

Re: Humor - Semper Fi!

:lol: :P :lol: :P
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
Replies: 10
Views: 2794

OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight

Anyone have a picture of one? Curious how it is mounted and can't find any info on their site.
by The Lewis
Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Malfeasance of Government on Display - again
Replies: 22
Views: 3095

Re: POLITICS - Malfeasance of Government on Display - again

These no knock warrants are despicable, I am reluctantly pleased that it happened to the Mayor of a town so perhaps something might come of it and these thuggish raids stopped. Drug addiction is bad, the war on drugs is a whole lot worse.
by The Lewis
Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HONDOS ON RIGHT NOW 8PM 08.05.08 ON amc
Replies: 2
Views: 1087

Re: HONDOS ON RIGHT NOW 8PM 08.05.08 ON amc

Thanks for the heads up! I caught Searchers, I love westerns...
by The Lewis
Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.
Replies: 13
Views: 2784

Re: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.

Sorry to hear that, the feds need to be shut down in so many ways...
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Treasures
Replies: 15
Views: 2483

Re: Treasures

+1 on what everyone has said...
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS -Surge At Home?
Replies: 20
Views: 2414

Re: POLITICS -Surge At Home?

Bingo. I don't want McCain in any more than most of us - but I want Obama in even less. Pathetic choices have been forced upon us, but the reality is that we will elect a President this fall and it will be either McCain or Obama. I'd rather have some small glimmer of hope than none at all...[/quote]...
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 1st Annual Leverguns Billy Dixon Shoot Report
Replies: 28
Views: 14606

Re: 1st Annual Leverguns Billy Dixon Shoot Report

Great report Mr. Tuttle! That looks like a fine time. Man, I need to move west...
by The Lewis
Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS- Conneticut gun seizure law
Replies: 4
Views: 844

POLITICS- Conneticut gun seizure law

And I thought that America stood for Liberty and Justice for all... Unique law lets police seize guns before a crime is committed BY PAUL HUGHES REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN HARTFORD -- Using a unique state law, police in Connecticut have disarmed dozens of gun owners based on suspicions that they might harm...
by The Lewis
Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: COST OF 22 RIMFIRE
Replies: 115
Views: 28168

Re: COST OF 22 RIMFIRE

Just went up from 11.97 to 13.47 here for a federal box of 550 rounds at WallyMart...
by The Lewis
Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Politics - RKBA Quotes
Replies: 9
Views: 1924

Re: Politics - RKBA Quotes

I don't know, but they both work for me.
by The Lewis
Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:16 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rossi troubleshooting help needed
Replies: 5
Views: 1010

Re: Rossi troubleshooting help needed

The stock plastic follower tends to hang up, a metal one that would cure the ill can be had from Steve @ Steve's Guns.
by The Lewis
Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What kind of hunter are you?
Replies: 44
Views: 3921

Re: What kind of hunter are you?

I'm a 4 when I'm outdoors and a 3 when I'm not, always visualizing.
I like the Wyoming pic too...
by The Lewis
Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Letter to the editor on immigration
Replies: 3
Views: 610

POLITICS - Letter to the editor on immigration

Got this via email, thought thought this a good way to pass it along... From: 'David LaBonte' My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to 'print' it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you fee...
by The Lewis
Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:50 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols
Replies: 15
Views: 1727

Re: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols

Rjohns, Do you have any contact info for John Pauza?
by The Lewis
Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols
Replies: 15
Views: 1727

Re: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols

Nice guns and thanks for all the range reports of late! Now, tell me more about that little knife. I need something like that, where'd you find that?
by The Lewis
Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Political - New Zealand seizes kid because of strange name
Replies: 16
Views: 2057

Re: Political - New Zealand seizes kid because of strange name

Well, seems to me anyone who really has a problem with their birth name can legally change it when they are 18, unfortunate as that name is I can't abide the court spending time on it. But then, I guess it's NZ's problem...
by The Lewis
Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
Replies: 21
Views: 2639

Re: Political - Obama's latest gaffe

Found an unedited version on Hotair.com, and seems to be one of those 'out of context' statements. He was talking about calling us all to service to make the world a better place, 'a civilian national security force' to spread hope and love all across the world, not some jack booted thugs to keep us...
by The Lewis
Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
Replies: 21
Views: 2639

Re: Political - Obama's latest gaffe

Thanks for the clip Ysabel. Unfortunately, right when he says "There is no greater challenge then the defense of our nation and our values..." the video comes to an abrupt halt, I guess YouTube decided it was best that we don't hear what he had to say as well.
by The Lewis
Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
Replies: 21
Views: 2639

Re: Political - Obama's latest gaffe

Tsabel, Can you come up with the youtube video link? I do not like this Obama...
by The Lewis
Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers
Replies: 7
Views: 1769

Re: OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers

$1000.00, it looks like what is pictured above minus the .357 set. What do you think 'o that price, I read that there were only 150 quick kit guns made. Cubrock, what quirks do you refer to? I'm going to go look at it again Monday and decide, I'll let you know if I pass on it, or post some pics... :...
by The Lewis
Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers
Replies: 7
Views: 1769

OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers

A local gun shop has one for sale used, a quick-kit Seville with 44mag and 45colt barrels and cylinders. Deep rich bluing, looks great but I have never heard of them, what do you folks think about the quality of these firearms?

Any tales of wonder or woe would be appreciated, thanks in advance...
by The Lewis
Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - Things to make you go Hmmmmm.
Replies: 7
Views: 1503

Re: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - Things to make you go Hmmmmm.

Hmmmmmm... When do we march on the Bastille?
by The Lewis
Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Hey, Waitaminute...
Replies: 16
Views: 2485

Re: OT - Hey, Waitaminute...

If you watch 'The Magnificent Seven' and 'The Seven Samurai' they are, scene for scene, the exact same movie. Happens a lot I'd guess.
by The Lewis
Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Politics: Where UK is, US seems determined to follow..
Replies: 20
Views: 2285

Re: Politics: Where UK is, US seems determined to follow..

Lon Horiuchi still walks free. Our tax dollars working hard for us, mmmm.
by The Lewis
Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Politics - Pro 2nd, a silver lining...
Replies: 4
Views: 925

Politics - Pro 2nd, a silver lining...

A silver lining in the otherwise very dark cloud of the daily kos..... Why Liberals Should Love The Second Amendment by Angry Mouse Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:01:33 PM PDT Liberals love the Constitution. Ask anyone on the street. They'll tell you the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a liberal or...
by The Lewis
Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Gone overboard with heavy hard bullets
Replies: 75
Views: 9274

+1 on that "Dang, This is good reading!"
by The Lewis
Sat May 31, 2008 10:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Politics: Thought you might like this...
Replies: 6
Views: 1429

Politics: Thought you might like this...

Whichever side of the fence you sit on, this DOES make an interesting read!....... Don't worry Republicans, aren't worried about 'approval ratings'! For those of us who spent time in the military, believe in our military and support the men and women of our military, read on............. John Glenn ...
by The Lewis
Fri May 02, 2008 9:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Multi-tasking
Replies: 10
Views: 1566

It's all I have for now and has been working great reloading .45 colt. Lately I've been raining .45acp brass at the range so need to consider something that will do more volume, which this hand press, unless your way faster than me, isn't so good for. It is great for the muti-tasking though ain't it...
by The Lewis
Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Anyone here into traditional archery?
Replies: 63
Views: 7645

Howard Hill Tembo 54#, Big Five 70#, and a few Ben Pearson takedown 956's 36#, 51# & 56#.

Shoot Arrow Dynamics traditional arrows, they are great, the same arrow shoots well from all the above bows.

Sometimes I even hit exactly where I was lookin'...
by The Lewis
Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: B. Dixon Ultra Long Range Event Report
Replies: 37
Views: 12206

Thanks for the exquisite report, Mr. Tutt. What fun!
by The Lewis
Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Politics/Religion - Oprah's anti-Christian views
Replies: 52
Views: 6614

Matthew 23

Hypocrites!
by The Lewis
Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Kim Du Toit is spot on (again) about War Movies:
Replies: 30
Views: 4880

Spot on guys. Here in Vermont we have a veteran against the war. He had joined the Army to pay for college, did a tour in Iraq and now is vocally opposed to the war. He cried that he joined the army to go to college for free and never expected to have to go fight someone! And that the conditions wer...
by The Lewis
Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - fighting for gun rights in Canada
Replies: 1
Views: 695

POLITICS - fighting for gun rights in Canada

Worth checking out...

www.brucemontague.ca

He's a Canadian who has put his neck out to fight the firearms act in Canada.
He deserves our support, IMHO, and I hope he prevails.

The videos that they have put together with daughter Katie are great.